Power, political economy, and historical landscapes of the modern world : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Christopher R. DeCorse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeCorse, Christopher R., editor.

Series:

Fernand Braudel Center studies in historical social science.

Fernand Braudel Center Studies in historical social science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history.

Social evolution.

Social history.

Social change--History.

Social change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (420 pages).

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2019.

Summary:

"This interdisciplinary volume brings together a richly substantive collection of case studies that examine European-indigene interactions, economic relations, and their materialities in the formation of the modern world. Research has well demonstrated the extent and complexity of the varied local economic and political systems, and diverse social formations that pre-dated European contact. These preexisting systems articulated with the expanding European economy and, in doing so, shaped its emergence. Moving beyond the confines of national or Atlantic histories to examine regional systems and their historical trajectories on a global scale, the studies within this volume draw examples from the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, North America, South America, Africa, and South Asia. While the contributions are rooted in substantive studies from different world areas, their overarching aim is to negotiate between global and local frames, revealing how the expanding world-system entangled the non-Western world in global economies, yet did so in ways that were locally articulated, varied and, often, non-European in their expression"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Historical landscapes of the modern world / Christopher R. DeCorse

1492 : a different kind of "discovery" / Matthew Johnson

Indigenous Caribbean networks in a globalizing world / Corinne L. Hofman

Rethinking colonial Maya peripherality : colonial frictions, salvaged value and the production of modernity in highland Guatemala / Guido Pezzarossi

Early modern landscapes of chocolate : the case of TacusCalco / Kathryn Sampeck

Early seventeenth-century settlement in Barbados and the shift to sugar, slavery, and capitalism / Douglas V. Armstrong

Indefensible landscapes : power dynamics, social relations, and Antigua's eighteenth-century fortifications / Christopher Kurt Waters

Graveyards as landscapes of power in the early modern Atlantic world / Erik R. Seeman

Life beyond the city : historical and archaeological perspectives on colonial Andean mobility / Noa Corcoran-Tadd

Landscapes of emergent frontier economies at Mission San Buenaventura / Thomas E. Tolley

Bending but unbroken : the nine tribes of the northern Tsimshian through the colonial era / Andrew Martindale, George MacDonald, and Sage Vanier

Crisis and transformation in the "slave rivers" at the dawn of the Atlantic trade / Gérard L. Chouin and Olanrewaju Blessing Lasisi

Nineteenth-century coastal Guinea : manifestations of the "illegal" slave trade in a local system / Kenneth G. Kelly

Economic and material basis of wildlife preservation in early colonial East Africa / Martin S. Shanguhyia

Huge oceans, small comparisons : Danish enclaves in the Indian and Atlantic oceans / Mark W. Hauser.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438473444

1438473443

OCLC:

1099255277